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enApple Submits Central Oregon "Data Hall" Planhttp://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/15/apple-submits-central-oregon-data-hall-plan
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<p>Apple Inc. has dropped a big hint about its plans for a large-scale data center in Central Oregon.&nbsp;The Bend Bulletin reports that a master plan submitted to the city of Prineville shows two buildings with more than 500,000 square feet of what are described as &quot;data halls.&quot;<br />
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&nbsp;The plan doesn&#39;t say when Apple might start building. Prineville officials say the company has been vague about a schedule, and the company did not respond to calls.&nbsp;Apple is already building a small, 10,000-square-foot data center on its Prineville property, but city officials have been expecting a bigger development.<br />
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The report about Apple follows shortly after news that Facebook expects to build additional data storage facilities across the road in Prineville.</p>
<p><em>Associated Press</em></p>
http://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/15/apple-submits-central-oregon-data-hall-plan#commentsNewsAppleCentral Oregon newsWed, 15 Aug 2012 19:03:19 +0000Jim McCoy2549 at http://www.thedove.usNew Facebook Data Center To Be Addedhttp://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/14/new-facebook-data-center-be-added
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<p>Facebook has filed plans for a third data center in the Central Oregon city Prineville.&nbsp;The Bend Bulletin reports the social network company has a 334,000-square-foot facility up and running in Prineville and a twin under construction next door. The third facility would be smaller, about 62,000 square feet.<br />
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The proposed data center wouldn&#39;t create full-time jobs. It would be handled by employees at one of the larger facilities. A company spokesman said a construction timetable will depend on the company&#39;s business.</p>
http://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/14/new-facebook-data-center-be-added#commentsNewsBusiness newsCentral Oregon newsFacebookTue, 14 Aug 2012 18:46:42 +0000Jim McCoy2534 at http://www.thedove.usCentral Oregon Homes Protected Successfullyhttp://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/07/central-oregon-homes-protected-successfully
<p>Firefighters have thwarted a fast-moving fire and protected a subdivision of weekend getaway homes in Central Oregon.&nbsp;An evacuation notice was lifted about 10 p.m. Monday in the Three Rivers development about 15 miles northeast of Sisters.<br />
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&nbsp; Lisa Clark, a spokeswoman for agency firefighters, said about 100 homes were threatened. But because it was a weekday night, only about 15 people were in the subdivision.&nbsp;She said firefighters did a &quot;burnout operation.&quot;<br />
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They lit a fire along a road that denied the wildfire the fuel it might have used to get across the road and into the subdivision.&nbsp;Clark says the combination of the road and the strip deliberately set afire created a large barrier, so authorities lifted the evacuation order.</p>
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<p><em>​Associated Press</em></p>
http://www.thedove.us/news/2012/08/07/central-oregon-homes-protected-successfully#commentsNewsCentral Oregon newswildfiresTue, 07 Aug 2012 18:04:17 +0000Jim McCoy2472 at http://www.thedove.us